PoliticalChic
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1. Amazing how closely the first chapter of the Old Testament conforms to current scientific understanding of the origins of the earth. First “Let there be light…” Big Bang…explosion….energy….light.
a. “The formation of the sea as well as the land is chosen as the second stage in the creation on the Bible’s first page. Modern science reveals that land and sea certainly were in place before the next stage in the scientific account of the history of the universe.” Parker, “The Genesis Enigma,” p.54.
What a coincidenceÂ….or confluence.
b. Fossils of cyanobacteria as old as 3,600 million years old have been found, early bacterium evolving a molecule that could use the energy of the sun’s rays to gain electrons from water: it could ‘photosynthesize.’ And the life mentioned next in Genesis? Grass, herbs and fruit trees are plants.
2. Problem: if there was light “in the beginning,” why is the sun specified again later?
a. Genesis 14-19: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
3. Leave that for a moment, and go back to science’s timeline. Dr. Andrew Parker, Oxford zoologist, wrote “ ‘In the Blink of an Eye’, [in which he] proposes that the Cambrian Explosion, the sudden diversification in animal fossil forms at the start of the Cambrian Era, was due to the development of the vision faculty and the consequent intensification of predation.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Parker_(zoologist)
4. Charles Darwin, in a section of “On The Origin of Species” called ‘Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication,’ wrote: “To suppose that the eye …could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Cretinism or Evilution?: An Old, Out of Context Quotation
5. “Slotting a lens into the body of adigital SLR camera, complete with its light sensing array, and connecting the camer to a computer for image processing, one is reminded of the human visual system….For such an eye to evolve, all three must evolve independently, and simultaneously.”
Parker, “The Genesis Enigma,” p. 108.
6. Eyes may be either chamber or compound type, both of which produce an image on the retina. Simple light sensors do not. The first eye evolved in a soft-bodied trilobite, some 521 million years ago. The Evolutionary Arms Race - Examples Among Trilobites and The eyes have it | COSMOS magazine
7. The development of eyes effectively turned on the lights for living things. Suddenly it seems prescient for the author of the creation account in Genesis to add the emphasis of verses 14-19.
Seems that Genesis remains parallel with the scientifically correct sequence of events in the history of life; it highlights, pun intended, the most dramatic innovation of life.
See chapter 5 of Parker, Op. Cit.
AgainÂ…first signs of life, 3,900 million years ago; first photosynthetic organisms, 3,600 million years ago; eye-equipped trilobites, 521 million years ago.
Coordinates well with the book of Genesis.
a. “The formation of the sea as well as the land is chosen as the second stage in the creation on the Bible’s first page. Modern science reveals that land and sea certainly were in place before the next stage in the scientific account of the history of the universe.” Parker, “The Genesis Enigma,” p.54.
What a coincidenceÂ….or confluence.
b. Fossils of cyanobacteria as old as 3,600 million years old have been found, early bacterium evolving a molecule that could use the energy of the sun’s rays to gain electrons from water: it could ‘photosynthesize.’ And the life mentioned next in Genesis? Grass, herbs and fruit trees are plants.
2. Problem: if there was light “in the beginning,” why is the sun specified again later?
a. Genesis 14-19: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
3. Leave that for a moment, and go back to science’s timeline. Dr. Andrew Parker, Oxford zoologist, wrote “ ‘In the Blink of an Eye’, [in which he] proposes that the Cambrian Explosion, the sudden diversification in animal fossil forms at the start of the Cambrian Era, was due to the development of the vision faculty and the consequent intensification of predation.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Parker_(zoologist)
4. Charles Darwin, in a section of “On The Origin of Species” called ‘Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication,’ wrote: “To suppose that the eye …could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Cretinism or Evilution?: An Old, Out of Context Quotation
5. “Slotting a lens into the body of adigital SLR camera, complete with its light sensing array, and connecting the camer to a computer for image processing, one is reminded of the human visual system….For such an eye to evolve, all three must evolve independently, and simultaneously.”
Parker, “The Genesis Enigma,” p. 108.
6. Eyes may be either chamber or compound type, both of which produce an image on the retina. Simple light sensors do not. The first eye evolved in a soft-bodied trilobite, some 521 million years ago. The Evolutionary Arms Race - Examples Among Trilobites and The eyes have it | COSMOS magazine
7. The development of eyes effectively turned on the lights for living things. Suddenly it seems prescient for the author of the creation account in Genesis to add the emphasis of verses 14-19.
Seems that Genesis remains parallel with the scientifically correct sequence of events in the history of life; it highlights, pun intended, the most dramatic innovation of life.
See chapter 5 of Parker, Op. Cit.
AgainÂ…first signs of life, 3,900 million years ago; first photosynthetic organisms, 3,600 million years ago; eye-equipped trilobites, 521 million years ago.
Coordinates well with the book of Genesis.
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